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How Were the American Civil Engineers Born?  

Kim, Deok-Ho (School of Liberal Arts, Korea University of Technology and Education)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.14, no.5, 2011 , pp. 29-36 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper examines the birth of civil engineers in the United States. Unlike the advanced some European countries such as Great Britain or France, as a new nation America had to import high-tech technologies from them. In the process of transplantation she had mixed up the civil engineering of British style with French's. As a result, the training of the civil engineers in America had developed in various ways.
Keywords
Civil Engineer; America; Great Britain; France; West Point; Rensselaer;
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